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California bans smoking in a car with minors.

I actually agree with this one, not sure there's a way for the private market to fix this

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Well, if roads were privatized then road owners would be able to make whatever rules they wanted. So of course if the government can "fix it" by monopolizing roads and forbidding it on their roads, it should be obvious that private road owners could as well.

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, and its essentially child abuse.

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I'm not quite with you here. What about parents who feed their kids too much junk food? Don't hug them enough? Don't read to them when they're small children? What about smoking at home, is that different than cars? Should we ban smoking in homes with minors? I think legislating against "bad parenting" is too hard. There's just too many factors in play to start picking some out and banning/mandating them.